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One of the best parts of the annual ATX Television Festival, which was held this past weekend in Austin, Texas, is that it not only celebrates the current array of fabulous TV programming with shows like “The Fosters” and LGBT-centric panels about diversity but it also looks back at groundbreaking programming that helped change the […]

[Spoiler Alert: Do not read ahead unless you have watched the third season premiere of “The Fosters.”] “Nobody dies.” That’s the first thing “The Fosters” co-creator/executive producer Peter Paige told me when I asked about last night’s third season premiere. As you may remember, the second season finale ended with a car crash involving Mariana […]

The 26th annual GLAAD Media Awards were held Saturday night in Beverly Hills and the stars turned out to support and celebrate the LGBT messages we see in our media today. Tig Notaro was at the helm as host, and there was some definite star power during the event with film star Channing Tatum presenting the Stephen […]

Bang! That’s what we heard on last week’s episode of “The Fosters” and Jude, Connor and the two girls they’re hanging out are presumably mistaken for intruders. The kids enter the home of one of the girls late one night to get some liquor and the girl’s father hears them and comes out with a […]

The attraction between young Jude (Hayden Byerly) and his friend Connor (Gavin MacIntoh) has been building for some time on ABC Family’s drama series “The Fosters” but last night things took a huge step forward. Previously, there was some off-screen kissing in a tent while camping (which the boys lied about, saying they were kissing […]

Great news for fans of “The Fosters!” ABC Family announced this morning that “The Fosters,” the drama series from creators Peter Paige and Bradley Bredeweg (and exec produced by Jennifer Lopez) will return for a third season This comes just before the premiere of all-new episodes from the rest of season two on Monday, January 19 at 8pm. The […]

It’s a new year but if one show came into its own in 2014 it’s ABCFamily’s “The Fosters.” The drama about a family headed by lesbian couple Lena (Sherri Saum) and Stef (Teri Polo) continued to make us laugh and cry as everyone went through growing pains that always kept the family foundation solid. I […]

On Wednesday night here in Los Angeles, The Paley Center for Media hosted its annual Los Angeles gala, celebrating the important role that television has played over the past six decades in the issue of LGBT equality. Besides having influential persons from past and present at the event, the gala also marked the launch of […]

In the first part of the TV Showrunners feature, I talked with both gay and straight showrunners to find out how they approach creating LGBT characters and writing LGBT stories. What they shared was that while we have definitely made strides towards more and better representation, there’s still some room to grow in many areas. […]

The year was 1977 and even without the Internet to spread the word on controversy I knew that there was something freaking people out about with this new sitcom called “Soap.” The show was supposedly racy, sexual and bawdy like no other show had been before and among its regular cast, it also had a […]